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I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
Greta Garbo
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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Octavio Paz
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
Anais Nin
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If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.
Russell Brand
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And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee
Doreen Valiente
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Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
Khurram Murad
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We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
Hafez Ibrahim
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
David Quammen
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What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
Sharon Salzberg
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Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
Portia de Rossi
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prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.
Sophy Burnham
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I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.
Cheryl Strayed
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
Julia Cameron
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
Kevin Spacey
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When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.
Jeffrey Zaslow
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[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
Gloria Steinem
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
Adyashanti
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Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
Shekhar Kapur
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Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
Douglas Adams
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You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.
Ralph Marston
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I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
Patti Smith
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Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.
John Pierrakos
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I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.
Isha Judd
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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.
Carl Jung
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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
Tom Hooper
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So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
Charles Lamb
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When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.
John Lancaster Spalding
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One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
Ovid
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Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
Mason Cooley
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Creativity is a yearning for immortality
Rollo May
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[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.
Jonah Goldberg
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
Adyashanti
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Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
Richard Yates
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I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.
Ram Dass
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
Laura Hillenbrand
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
Cole Porter
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Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
Henry David Thoreau
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I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
Melina Marchetta
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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
Sarah Dessen